Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | I agree. And I think it's a terrible thing to lay on a cancer patient that if they aren't positive all the time they might somehow be responsible if they have a recurrence. My Dad was a 23 year cancer survivor when he died of heart disease and he was the most negative pessimistic person you could imagine when he was being treated for cancer. He was sure it would kill him, then when it didn't he was sure it would come back. It never did (though he wasted a lot of time worrying about it).
So go ahead and let yourself feel what you feel. Trying to look on the positive is good for your mental health in the long run, but being positive or negative makes no difference to cancer as far as I can tell.
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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